Posted on 02/23/2021 6:07:04 PM PST by MtnClimber
To boldly farm fish where no one has farmed fish before.
The seabass eggs, all 200 of them, were settled in their module and ready to go. The ground crew had counted the eggs carefully, checked each for an embryo, and sealed them tightly within a curved dish filled precisely to the brim with seawater.
The countdown, and then—ignition! For two full minutes, the precious eggs suffered a riotous shaking as the rocket’s engines exploded to life, followed by another eight minutes of heightened juddering as they ascended to the heavens. These embryonic fish were on their way to low Earth orbit. Next stop: the moon.
Well, they haven’t actually left yet. But after a recent simulation designed to re-create the intense shaking of a typical takeoff, researchers in France found that the eggs survived the ordeal well. It’s a crucial discovery in the progress of the Lunar Hatch, a program that aims to determine whether astronauts could successfully rear fish on a future moon base.
(Excerpt) Read more at hakaimagazine.com ...
Raise them in the Sea of Tranquility? I need more fishing line!
Rear fish seems like an odd turn of phrase.
Pre-poached sea bass? LOL
I’ll take some crater carp and some large mouth lunar bass.
To raise stronger more aggressive game fish, put them in the Ocean of Storms.
Really? So they succeed, to whom will they sell them to, and how much will they cost? Why do this? The initial cost will be stratospheric. What silliness.
If you can have Rear Admirals, why not rear fish?
I hear the biggest problem with many of the dishes is they keep coming back up on you.
It is really silly. I think having a NASCAR race on the Moon would be better.
> Why do this? The initial cost will be stratospheric. <
I did not read the linked article. Long story, but it’s a condition of my federal parole. Anyway, this is yet another silly project. I sure hope no taxpayer dollars were involved.
The Israelis already seeded the moon with Tardigrades
https://www.timesofisrael.com/crashed-israeli-lander-may-have-seeded-moon-with-water-bears/
Does anyone have a good recipe for them?
I predict the fish won’t know which way is up in zero gravity, go crazy and die.
...or not?
I’m imagining upside down, sideways, horizontal, diagonal and upright fish swimming around...
Lol!
Wouldn’t that be NASA-CAR?
Raising fish on the moon? Now why didn’t I think of that?
The moon is not zero gravity, it’s low gravity.
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